"But you say every child that
comes into the world, the Lord puts the devil in him and then sends him to hell
for having the devil in him eh?

Well that's hardly justice.

I heard a statement the other day
where one man said "Remember now, you're responsible for Adam's
guilt."

Can there by anything more insane?

Can any judge condemn me for what my
father did? Surely not!

Now the greatest preacher America ever
had in my judgment is Charles Finney and he did not believe in Original Sin.

He believed that every child was born
innocent and acquired depravity in the time he decided to run his own
life."~ Leonard Ravenhill

This teaching today is quite thorough, however is not even
exastive

You will be able to find this teaching on our website as well as a
much more exhaustive teaching on the subject called: “OVER ONE HUNDREDTEXTS
FROM THE BIBLE

THAT SHOW THE DOCTRINE OFORIGINAL SINIS
UNBIBLICAL AND FALSE” from www.gospeltruth.net

Question, did we inherit Adams sin? Were we born with a sin
nature?

No! God could never create man with a sinful nature!

God is light and in him is no darkness at all! God cannot be tempted
with evil not does He tempt any man!

He is perfect in all his ways. He is just and righteous and
without iniquity.

Only good and perfect gifts come down from him.

How wrong it is for men to charge him with creating sinners!

So please let me have your undivided attention here

Although all men have an innate and genuine thirst after truth and
corresponding disgust for error, there may exist, strange as it may seem,
extreme opposition to the acceptance of certain truths—

Even an absolute hatred of these truths, because they differ from
what we now believe, because they require changes in us which we do not want to
make because they require the confession that we have been mistaken and have
held error--so the mind will not give them fair treatment—

The mind then hardens against these truths and imposes unjust
tests and will not give them the courtesy of fair and respectful attention.

Prejudices, vicious habits of thought, pride of opinion and of
denominational belief, ignorance, suspicion, bigotry, blind following of
religious and denominational leaders so cloud and numb the mind that it cannot
and will not see its own errors, or the truth of others--when with a little
unprejudiced examination the truth could be seen.

So I ask you, as always, to open up your heart to the absolute
truth of the Bible today

Let the Word of God speak for itself and clear out any and all
false beliefs that may be revealed

There are over one hundred texts from the Bible that show that
little babies are created upright and in the image and likeness of God, and
that it is impossible for them to be sinners until they have reached the
"age of accountability" and know the difference between good and
evil.

We will only present several today…

And let me say doctrine is of eternal importance…1Tim.4:16

So, how did this horrible doctrine come into being?

Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) was historically reckoned one of
the key church fathers who lead in the development of Christian theology.
However, he introduced many heresy’s instead.

One such heresy is his concept of "Original Sin".

Now along with the guilt of sin, Augustine proposes also a sinful
nature was passed down through Adam.

John Calvin - a disciple of Augustine - summarized the Augustinian
view of the sinful nature with his term "Total Depravity".

That is, people are born so totally morally corrupt that they have
no control over their behavior and can do nothing of themselves but
sin.

Now we must believe that anything that detracts from Truth is considered
heresy.

Doctrines of men fit that description, as Christ said; ‘You make
the Commandments of God of no effect by your doctrines and traditions of men’.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ requires active participation and
obedience, the total destruction of sin, striving, counting the cost, putting
your hand to the plow and going on to sin no more.

There is no mention in Christ teachings or the Apostles teachings about
anything called ‘original sin’, or a dual nature that limits man’s ability to
do as God commanded.

I want you to hear this, especially you Ministers

Ministers who believe this doctrine will have a tendency to wink
at and excuse sin in their churches

The whole tendency of this doctrine is to beget an indulgent
spirit toward sin, and the low, unscriptural standard of religion that actually
exists in many churches today

I want you to hear this, most churches have lowered…instead of raising
the standard high to God’s standard!

They’re too busy white washing walls…

Not born with sin nature – Gen.1:27 So God
created man in His own image; in the image of God He
created him; male and female He created them.

"Man…is the image and glory of God." I Corinthians
11:7

Acts 17:29 Therefore, since we are the offspring
of God…

Ecc.7:29 Truly, this only I have found: That God made man upright,
But they have sought out many schemes.”

Here are four very plain Scriptures that contradict being born
with a sin nature

And the Bible NEVER contradicts itself!

We are created in the image of God, we are the image and glory of
God, we are the offspring of God and we are created upright until we seek out
many schemes.

If we went no farther than this, we could end the class right
here! But continuing…

Men Must Go Against Their Nature To Sin

All disobedience to God's law goes against the nature God has
created us with. In Romans 2:14-15, every time we sin, whatever that sin
may be, we are sinning against the law of God written in our hearts.

And this is a sin against our nature. All sin is against our
nature. All righteousness conforms to the nature we are born with:

"(They) do by nature the things contained in
the law." Romans 2:14

(They) show the work of the law written in their
hearts." Romans 2:15

So the Scriptures that are used to prove we are born with a sin
nature are twisted and taken out of context!

Now we’re going to look at the six proof texts that are twisted to
prove we are born with a sin nature

The first thing we need to understand here is, David was speaking
of his mother, NOT himself!

“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother
conceived me.”

David’s mother was not married!

Furthermore,
this text is not literal, it is figurative. For
example, let us compare Psalm 5l:5 with Job 1:21: "Naked
came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall
I return thither."

If Psalm
51:5 can be interpreted literally to teach the doctrine that David and all
other men are born sinners, then Job 1:21 can also be interpreted
literally to teach the doctrine that Job and
all other men will go back into their mother's womb: "Naked came I out of
my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither."

The Psalmist
David uses figurative language
throughout his Psalms; and he uses several figurative expressions in Psalm
51.

Verses five,
seven, and eight of Psalm 51 are all figurative expressions.

"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be
clean." Psalm 51:7

"Make me
to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which
thou hast broken may rejoice." Psalm 51:8

And another
Psalm, Psalm 58:3, can be used to teach the astonishing doctrine that
all babies talk and tell lies from the very moment of their birth:

"The
wicked are estranged from the womb: they go
astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." Psalm 58:3

But, who would
teach from this last text the doctrine that babies really do speak as soon as
they are born?

None
of these passages should be taken literally.

2. Psalm 58:3: "The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies."

This text is
supposed to teach that babies are born sinners; but like Psalm 51:5 it
is figurative and not literal. If it were literal, it would teach that babies
speak and tell lies as soon as they are born, and that they alienate themselves
from God and go astray from him immediately upon coming out of the womb.

But all of
this is clearly contrary to reality.

We know that
babies do not do any of these things at birth.

Therefore it
is clear that this language is not to be understood literally. If this verse
taught that Babies literally came forth from their mother's womb
"estranged from God," it would contradict other passages from the
Bible that teach that babies are not "estranged from God" at birth.

John the
baptist was not "estranged from God from his mother's womb."

On the
contrary, the angel who announced his birth said, "He shall be filled with
the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb." Luke 1:15.

This fact is
hard to reconcile with a literal interpretation of Psalms 51:5 and 58:3.

Job also testified that he was a guide to the widow "from
his mother's womb." Job 31:18.

Job obviously did not mean that from the moment he was a helpless
newborn infant that he had been ministering to the needs of the widow.

Also, the Psalmist David himself testified that God had been his help
"from the womb." Psalm 71:6.

It is easy to see that the phrase "from the womb"
is often used in a figurative sense and should not always be understood in its
literal sense.

3.Ephesians
2:3: "And were by nature the children of wrath."

This text is torn completely from its context to teach the
horrifying doctrine that little babies are sinners, and condemned and under the
wrath of God from birth!

But the word "nature" in this text has nothing to do
with "birth" and neither does it have anything to do with
"babies."

It is speaking of adults and it is speaking of the wicked
character of adults.

For example, he calls the attention of the believers in Ephesians
2:1-2 to the fact that before their conversion they had lived
in trespasses and sins, and walked in every kind of wickedness, in company with
other sinners: “And you were dead in your trespasses and
sins, 2 in which you formerly walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of
disobedience.”

Then, he continues in verse three speaking of their participation
with other sinners in carnality and wickedness: “Among them we too all formerly
lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of
the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of
wrath, even as the rest.”

It was only after he had described their past life of wicked works
that he summed up the guilt and ill desert of their past life
with the words: "And WERE by nature the children of wrath,
even as others."

We know by the immediate context of this text (as well as the
context of the whole Bible) that Ephesians 2:3 is not speaking of being
born a sinner or being born under the wrath of God.

The word "nature" in the Bible, when it refers to what
we are by birth, never refers to a sinful nature. This is made manifest by Romans
2:14:

"The Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature
the things contained in the law."

Now the word "nature" in the above text does refer to
the nature that we receive at birth.

Children -

Mk.10:14 But when Jesus saw it, He was greatly displeased and said
to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them;
for of such is the kingdom of God.

Mt.19:14 But Jesus said, “Let the little
children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom
of heaven.”

Mt.18:3 and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted
and become as little children, you will by no means enter the
kingdom of heaven.

Surely the Lord was not suggesting that we become as little,
totally corrupt sinners!

Rom.2:14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the
things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to
themselves,

Ecc.7:29 Truly,
this only I have found: That God made man upright, But they have sought
out many schemes.”

Rom.7:9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the
commandment came, sin became alive and I died;

Age of accountability…So you see, no one has a “sin nature” until
one takes on the nature of sin!

4. Job 14:4:
"Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one."

This text is
supposed to teach that sinful parents cannot help but bear sinful children.

But this
interpretation completely ignores the context of this text.

The context
shows that Job had his eyes wholly on the frail and dying state of man, and not
at all upon his moral state.

The whole
sense of what Job was saying was that "no one can bring other than frail
and dying offspring from frail and dying parents." (See the context in Job
14:1-6)

If this text teaches that a sinner invariably produces another sinner,
it teaches blasphemy.

For if the doctrine of original sin is true, Mary, the mother of our
Lord Jesus was also born a sinner.

And if Job 14:4 really does teach that a sinner must
produce another sinner, there could be no way of escaping the blasphemous
conclusion that our Lord also was born a sinner.

Therefore
the doctrine that men are born sinners is false; for it makes Jesus a sinner or
one has to deny that he was a real man.

But
the Bible teaches that Christ was a real man like all other men, born with the
same human nature as all other men and a true descendant of Adam, Abraham, and
David:

the
son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. Luke 3:38

Rom.
"Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of
David according to the flesh." Romans 1:3

For
we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our infirmities; but
one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. Hebrews
4:15

For
many deceivers have gone forth into the world, even those who do not confess
that Jesus Christ comes in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 2
John 7

John
1:14

Have
this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 who, existing in the form
of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness
of men; 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming
obedient even unto death,

yes,
the death of the cross. 9 Therefore also God highly exalted him, and gave to
him the name which is above every name; 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father. Php. 2:5-14

HalleluYah!
Jesus Christ is God and He came in the form of a man and he WAS NOT born a
sinner and NEITHER were you!

5.Job 15:14: "What is man that he should be clean? And
he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"

First, these are the words of Eliphaz, and cannot be quoted as inspired
truth. God himself testified that Job's comforters did not hold the truth. (See
Job 42:7)

But suppose we
did accept this verse as inspired truth, what does it teach?

It teaches
nothing at all about a morally depraved physical constitution. It merely implies the sinful condition of all mankind
without saying anything about how man got that way.

But
again, this text, like the last, if used to teach the constitutional sinfulness
of men, would teach the blasphemy that our Lord Jesus was born a sinner,
because he was a man and was born of a woman

6. Rom.5:12: Therefore, just as through one man sin
entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death
spread to all men, because all sinned –

13 (For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed
when there is no law.

14 Neverthelessdeath reigned from Adam to
Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of
the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

We see death spread to all men through the one man’s (Adam’s) sin.

People are not responsible for sin unto they sin, “because all
sinned”.

Then Paul speaks of death reigning from Adam to Moses, even over those
who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam.

So if all people are responsible for Adam’s sin, how could there
be even one who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression
of Adam?

If we were born with a sinful nature
not one sin would be against our nature but every sin would agree with and be
in harmony with our nature.

So the fact that all sin is against our nature proves that we are
not born with a sinful nature.

People who believe we are born with a sin nature can use every
excuse under the sun for committing sin!

Well, I was born that way! I can’t help myself! This blames our
Creator for creating us with a sin nature, and God is totally antagonistic
against sin with every fiber of His great moral being!

I believe many people have believed this out of ignorance, however
the
very idea that God would create man a sinner is a monstrous blasphemy against
the holy and righteous character of God.

God is perfect
in justice, holiness, and love.

And it would
be the greatest injustice possible to create men sinners and then condemn them
to hell for the nature that he himself had created them with.

God is perfect
and could never work such injustice:

Deut. 32:3-6,
18 "For I proclaim
the name of the Lord: Ascribe greatness to our God.

5 “They have
corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of
their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.6 Do you thus deal with the Lord, O foolish
and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought
you? Has He not made you and established you?

18 Of the
Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have forgotten the God who fathered you."

This
text affirms that God has had nothing to do with the sins of his people: he did
not create them sinners; he is holy, just, and righteous and cannot work evil,
falsehood, or injustice:

"
His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice,
A God of truth and without injustice (or iniquity); Righteous and upright is He."
He has not created his children with sin.

His
children have corrupted themselves!

"For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth."
Genesis 8:21

Direct Quotations, That Are Not Taught In The Bible

"Our nature sinned in Adam." And, "It was just,
that after our nature had sinned…we should be born animal and carnal."
Augustine

"Our nature there transformed for the worse, not only became
a sinner, but also begets sinners." Augustine

"Unconscious infants, dying without baptism, are damned by
virtue of their inherited guilt." Augustine

"From this condemnation no one is exempt, not even newborn
children." Augustine

"The 'nature and essence' of man is, from his birth, an evil
tree and a child of wrath." Martin Luther

"Even children, dying unbaptized, are lost." Martin
Luther

"Original sin is the hereditary depravity and corruption of
our nature…which first makes us subject to the wrath of God, and then produces
in us works which the Scripture calls works of the flesh." Calvin

"The sin of Adam is the immediate cause and ground of inborn
depravity, guilt, and condemnation to the whole human race." A. H. Strong,
Systematic Theology, p. 611

"This evil tendency or inborn determination to evil, since it
is the real cause of actual sins, must itself be sin, and as such must be
guilty and condemnable." A. H. Strong, Systematic Theology, p. 611

I wonder if even Christian men really know that God is holy,
just, and good!

I wonder if they know that GOD IS LOVE and that he
could never create men sinners and then condemn them to everlasting punishment
for the nature that he himself had given them!

Christian men ought not to ascribe such cruelty, wickedness, and
injustice to God.

God is good and perfect and could never work such injustice.

I close with this:

Certain truths are self-evident. They are direct
perceptions of the reason and are therefore known to be true by all
men:

A thing cannot both exist and not exist at the same time. Two
contradictory declarations cannot both be true.

One id the truth and one is a lie!

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. The
whole cannot be greater than the sum of its parts. Every effect must have a
cause.

And a creation implies a creator.

Moral character is non-transferable. There are no proxies in
morals.

Sin cannot be imputed, in other words held against anyone where it
does not exist without injustice.

Perfect justice cannot punish the innocent for the guilt of
another.

All sin is personal and non-transferable.

There is so much more we could teach on this, but I believe we’re
given enough Scriptural proof…

People of God, it is our earnest desire that you take these things
and run with them!

Lets destroy this terrible heresy that people are born sinners

You church leaders out there, I want you to hear this!

We challenge you to take these apostolic truths to your
congregations and preach and teach them until every single person is convinced
of the truth of God’s Word on this!

Lets stop making God a liar by teaching all people are born with a
sin nature in Jesus name! Amen!!